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Purple Toothwort

 
Purple Toothwort at the base of a tree, East Devon
 
 
Patch of Purple Toothwort
 
 
Purple Toothwort in damp woodland in South Somerset
 
 
A cluster of Purple Toothwort flowers
 
 
Side-view of flower - large concave upper lip and smaller
 
tri-lobed lower lip
 
 
 
Close-up of front of flower - 5 stamens with white
 
filaments and yellow anthers. Exserted capitate stigma
 
 
Side-view of flower -  anther and triangular calex lobes
 
 
Side-view of purple corolla - large concave upper lip
 
with exserted style and stigma
 
 
Back-view of hood-like corolla upper lips